View From The Porch: I seem to be having a hard time being funny...

Friday, February 01, 2013

I seem to be having a hard time being funny...

...for more than 140 characters at a lick...

@iowahawkblog It's got to be a joke name, sir. Like Naughtius Maximus, or Biggus Dickus.
— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) February 1, 2013

"Quo vadis, mah homies?" Seriously?
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27 comments:

Erin Palette said...: I have a vewwy gweat fwiend in Wome named Biggus Dickus. He has a wife, you know. Her name is Incontinentia Buttocks.; 8:40 AM, February 01, 2013
Anonymous said...: It's a question *and* an answer!; 8:52 AM, February 01, 2013
perlhaqr said...: I don't think that demographic is likely to be making latin jokes. I mean, we're referring to folks that can't really even speak the language of the country they were born in.

I suppose he could have been named by the doctor.; 8:58 AM, February 01, 2013
Steve Skubinna said...: Vewy well, I shall wewease Bwian!; 8:58 AM, February 01, 2013
Stuart the Viking said...: I am no longer surprised by what people come up with to name their children. After "4-Real" aka Superman and "La-a" (supposedly pronounced Ladasha "the dash aint silent"). Quovadus Mahomes sounds completely reasonable.

The other day, I noticed a girl working the counter in a store with Shillelagh on her name tag... She was a skinny stick of a girl.

s; 9:03 AM, February 01, 2013
mostly cajun said...: Every week I scan the local paper for birth announcements and post the best in a weekly feature called "The Name Game"

I find this example fascinating.

MC; 9:16 AM, February 01, 2013
Anonymous said...: Maybe Henryk Sienkiewicz Mahomes was to hard to spell.

Gerry; 10:00 AM, February 01, 2013
Anonymous said...: How about L-A? La-dash-a, the dash don't be silent!; 10:15 AM, February 01, 2013
Tam said...: Anybody who wants to have a little Klan rally can have it elsewhere.; 10:18 AM, February 01, 2013
Goober said...: It is actually kind of a cool sounding name. Like other Latin names such as maximus. I seriously doubt that the Latin part was intentional however. Must just be the cynic in me; 11:16 AM, February 01, 2013
global village idiot said...: Say what you want about silly-sounding given names. The ones people are born with are often worse.

One of the Soldiers in my unit is named Kyle Chwaszczewski. Lake County, Indiana is full of eastern European names like Grncic, Czyz, Bajic, Djukic, Radosavijevic and so on. My own surname sounds like a sneeze.

gvi; 12:03 PM, February 01, 2013
Stretch said...: I give thanks my name is so common it is not always believed.; 3:16 PM, February 01, 2013
Noah D said...: The truly sad part is not, 'Oh, look at those silly people, making up names', it's that it means that they have no idea that names have meanings, and a connection with history. The first name of our illustrious hostess means, for instance, 'palm tree' in Hebrew. Mine is 'rest, comfort' (interestingly, in the feminine form, it means 'motion'), by way of the same language.

Granted, most people don't realize this, but still stick with traditional names because, well, tradition. The scattershot 'it sounds good' is, I worry, symptomatic of a much deeper disconnect with the broader culture, and a severing from even a personal, familial history.

Yeah, I'm probably overthinking this. History major.; 3:40 PM, February 01, 2013
Noah D said...: Now, all that said, 'Mahomey' could be a pretty common corruption of 'Dahomey', which does have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey>historical significance. </a>; 3:43 PM, February 01, 2013
JohninMd.(HELP?) said...: Oh, yay, verily I say onto you, pity the poor dude checking into a Holiday Inn with his knock-out, brick-house wife who dresses a little trampy whose name is "John Smith". Cuz you KNOW what the check-in clerk's thinkin'....; 4:51 PM, February 01, 2013
Ed said...: Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?

How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience? And for how long will that madness of yours mock us? To what end will your unbridled audacity hurl itself?

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, consul of Rome, 63 BC

The history of this reads like a "Star Wars" plot line:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catiline_Orations; 5:18 PM, February 01, 2013
Tam said...: Erin Palette,

"I have a vewwy gweat fwiend in Wome named Biggus Dickus. He has a wife, you know. Her name is Incontinentia Buttocks."

Please accept this Great Big Internet Hugz as a token of my appreciation! :); 5:52 PM, February 01, 2013
Tam said...: Incidentally, for those that didn't get the gag, the explanation is here: http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/13.htm; 7:23 PM, February 01, 2013
Tam said...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJMRxbECzow; 7:28 PM, February 01, 2013
Bill P. said...: One of my guys stopped a gentleman going by the nom Orangelo, but spelled on his DL as Orangejello. Hand to Jebus; 8:00 PM, February 01, 2013
The Freeholder said...: I have heard from several sources, but have no proof of, interns in various big city hospitals naming the infants of various...hm-m-m, how to nicely put this...women availing themselves of various recreational substances while on public assistance. It seems they show up at the ER, in hard labor, no pre-natal care at all, usually premedicated for the convenience of the docs. Often so premedicated they don't even know they're giving birth.

It's rumored to be something of a contest among them to come up with the most "interesting" names.; 9:04 PM, February 01, 2013
Robert said...: Noah said: "Now, all that said, 'Mahomey' could be a pretty common corruption of 'Dahomey',..."

You mean, like the legendary walking tree of Dahomey?; 11:16 PM, February 01, 2013
Ancient Woodsman said...: My cousin is a high school teacher in northern Indiana. He regaled us with the story of twins in his class, named "Amerika" and "Afrika"...as in 'ama-reeka' and 'afa-reeka'.

After that laugh-fest, I'd believe anything could be a name; lately it seems the more outrageous, the more likely.; 8:23 AM, February 02, 2013
markm said...: It is possible that this kid's parents saw the 1951 film on TV or something. It's only surprising that they got the spelling right.; 1:48 PM, February 03, 2013
roland said...: Yep, there is actually a large street gang in SLC called QVO, which they loosely translate as 'what's up?'; 4:04 PM, February 03, 2013
global village idiot said...: Not that it probably entered into the thinking of mom and dad, but "quo vadus" means "near the ford" meaning water-ford or shallow stream.

Who can say? The OIC of my last deployment went home on leave to be present for the birth of his son, Jace. Not short for Jason, BTW. I have no clue whence this name derives; however, he was the one member of his family who actually left the trailer park and made anything of himself.

gvi; 10:50 PM, February 03, 2013
RabidAlien said...: My wife, kiddo and I were checked in to an overpriced hotel/water-park a couple of weekends ago by a young lady who's nametag read "Treasure". I had to look around at other employees' tags just to make sure...yup, there was an "Anna" and "Carl". So its an actual nametag, not a nickname tag. *sigh*; 2:30 PM, February 04, 2013